LITTLE ROCK - Magnolia Regional Medical Center is one of 34 Arkansas hospitals to earn "Century Club" membership through its achievements to improve care and reduce preventable readmissions. Its work with the Arkansas Hospital Association's (AHA) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) program is part of the largest HEN in the nation, led by the American Hospital Association's Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) with 31 states and more than 1500 hospitals participating. To earn membership in the Century Club, a facility must report outcome data in all 10 of the HEN's areas of focus or all that apply to their hospital - quite a feat!
The HEN's goal is to help hospitals improve quality of care in the following areas: adverse drug events, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central line-associated blood stream infections, injuries from falls and immobility, obstetrical adverse events, pressure ulcers, surgical site infections, venous thromboembolism, ventilator-associated pneumonia and preventable readmissions.
Through the HEN, the AHA makes available training, one-on-one technical assistance and peer-to-peer learning collaboratives to participating hospitals, as well as access to national resources, toolkits and cutting edge information.
The HEN project contract was awarded to HRET and 25 other organizations nationally by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. The project assists hospitals in adopting new practices that have the potential to reduce inpatient harm by 40 percent and preventable readmissions by 20 percent. There are 46 hospitals participating in the AHA HEN; several of the state's other hospitals participate through other HEN contractors.
"Arkansas hospitals have a solid commitment to delivering the best quality care possible," said Pam Brown, RN, BSN, CPHQ, vice president for quality and patient safety at the AHA. "But the dedication of the Century Club hospitals goes above and beyond. These facilities have taken on the challenge of achieving improvement in all 10 areas of focus and serve as an example to their peers."
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For more information:
Karen Weido
870-235-3212
kweido@magnoliarmc.org
